social media isn’t chalk milk: a guess | maya.land
https://maya.land/monologues/2023/08/12/social-media-chalk-milk-guess.html#fnref:cavalier
None of this means that social tech use as it is shouldn’t be interrogated, that it’s fine to allow such influence of our social selves from VC-funded companies maximizing engagement, that there aren’t ever circumstances where we have opportunities to get something better by pushing ourselves harder. But while pulling chalk milk off the market was clearly the right call, further stigmatizing the lowest-barrier-to-entry ways that people can feel less lonely… isn’t.